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DZ · Algeria · Médéa · 7,273 inhabitants

Wildfires in Derrag دراق

Derrag, Algeria, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 348 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.7% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 24 Low 19° · 44 % · 32 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 21° · 26 % · 26 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 23° · 22 % · 21 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 25° · 23 % · 22 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Moderate 22° · 34 % · 23 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 19° · 44 % · 24 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 45 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Low 20° · 44 % · 33 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

348
hectares burned
1.7 %
of its area
3
fires
206
km²

How many times has Derrag burned?

Derrag has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2019, 2020 and 2026. The most recent: Oued Djemaa fire, July 2026, with 43 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 348 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 241 hectares, 1.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
3
fires
3
years with fire
348
cumulative ha
241
distinct ha

Fires larger than 100 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Algeria →

Fires that entered Derrag

  1. 43 ha Oued Djemaa fire, July 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 2,201 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 217 ha Oued Djemaa fire, August 2020 1.0% of the municipality · 1,286 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 88 ha Oued Djemaa fire, June 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 4,006 ha in total · 6 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Open Street Map (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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